E 462 ■■■■■■•••ail 

.^389 BY -LAW 8 

S3 

Copy 1 OF 




i 



^ 



NO. 17, 



DEPT. OF N 



I u]^ 



DOVER, N/H. 



DOVER, N. H^: 

LIBBEY & CO., PRINTERS. 

i877- ^■ 
X 



» ^ ■ ! g i VJi i W ^O ^np 



■T' 



^ 



BY- LAWS 



OF 



^'tiarte ™l. ^ 



NO. 17, 

DEPT. OF N. H. 



^rantr %xm^ oi t^e B^pnljlir, 



DOVER, N. H. 



DOVER, N. H. 

LIBBEY & CO., PRINTERS. 
1877. 



El 4-^ "^ 



IN EXCHA NOJb 



J lir 05 



It 



BY-LAWS, 



ARTICLE I. 

NAME. 

This Post shall be known as CHARLES W. 
SAWYER POST No. 17, G. A. R., Department 

of New Hampshire. 

ARTICLE IL 

MEETINGS. 

The stated meetings shall be on the first and 
third Thursday evenings of each month. The hour 
of meeting shall be from May i to September 30, 



4 BY-LAWS. 

at 8 o'clock, and from Oct. i to April 30, at 7.30 
P. M. 

ARTICLE III. 

DUES AND REVENUES. 

Sec. I. The annual dues from each member 
shall be three dollars, payable quarterly. 

Sec. 2. The initiation fee shall be three dol- 
lars, one dollar to be paid when application for 
membership is made, and two dollars when the re- 
cruit is mustered in. 

Sec. 3. Upon the death of any member the 
comrades shall be assessed 50 cents each as a funeral 
benefit. 

Sec. 4. Any Comrade presenting himself for 
membership with Transfer Card from another Post, 
on being admitted to this Post, shall pay the sum of 
one dollar, as admission fee. 

Sec. 5. Any Comrade of this Post who, by 
reason of sickness or other cause, may be unable 
to pay his quarterly dues, said dues maybe remitted 
by a two-thirds vote of Comrades present at any 
regular meeting. 

ARTICLE IV. 

committees. 
Sec. I. The Commander shall, on the night 



BY-LAWS, 5 

of his installation appoint a Relief Committee of 
three Comrades, who shall serve for one year, and 
whose duty it shall be to visit sick Comrades, detail 
watchers when necessary, and report to the Post 
Comrades entitled to receive weekly benefits. 

Sec. 2. The Commander shall also appoint 
an Auditing Committee, whose duty it shall be to 
audit the accounts of the Quartermaster, and report 
on the first regular meeting of every quarter. 

ARTICLE V. 

BENEFITS. 

Sec. I. Any Comrade in good standing, and 
free from all dues, shall be entitled to benefits in 
case of such sickness or disability as may prevent 
him from attending to his usual or other occupa- 
tion; provided such sickness or disability has not 
resulted from any immoral or improper conduct on 
his part. 

Sec. 2. Any Comrade applying for benefits, 
must make known the same to the Post, the Relief 
Committee, or a Comrade in good standing. 

Sec. 3. A Comrade making appHcation for 
benefits, must, if requested by the ReHef Commit- 
tee, furnish a certificate from the Post Surgeon or 
his attending Physician, and if the Post deem it 
necessary, an affidavit of his sickness. 



6 BY-LAWS. 

Sec. 4. Any Comrade who shall feign him- 
self sick or disabled, for the purpose of fraudulently 
obtaining benefits, or who may be the wilful cause 
of his own sickness, shall upon conviction thereof, 
be deprived of all benefits, and be suspended dur- 
ing the pleasure of the Post. 

Sec. 5. The weekly benefits of this Post 
shall be three dollars ($3.00) per week, for not ex- 
ceeding ten weeks ; two dollars ($2.00) per week 
for the next succeeding ten weeks in each year; 
provided that no benefits shall be allowed for less 
than one week's sickness. 

Sec. 6. Upon the decease of a beneficiary 
member, the sum of thirty dollars ($30) shall be ap- 
propriated for the purpose of defraying his funeral 
expenses. 

Sec 7. The payment of arrears during the 
sickness of a Comrade, shall not entitle him to 
weekly benefits during such sickness, nor to funeral 
benefits should death result therefrom, without the 
consent, by a two-thirds vote, of the Post. 

Sec. 8. The Post may make such additional 
appropriations for the relief of a Comrade's family 
in distress, as the circumstances may require. 

ARTICLE VI. 

watchers. 
Sec. I. Whenever a Comrade is detailed and 



BY-LAWS. 7 

notified to watch with a sick member, should he, 
without a reasonable excuse, neglect to perform 
that duty, or furnish a substitute, he shall pay a fine 
of $2 for every such neglect. 

ARTICLE VII. 

POLITICS. 

Sec. I. No ofiicer or Comrade of the Grand 
Army of the Republic shall in any manner use this 
organization for partisan purposes, and no discus- 
sion of partisan questions shall be permitted at any 
meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic, and 
no nominations for pohtical offices shall be made. 

ARTICLE VTII. 

ALTERATIONS AND AMENDMENTS. 

No provision of these By-Laws shall be altered 
or amended, unless such alteration or amendment 
have been proposed at a preceded stated meeting, 
and in no case shall any such proposed alteration 
or amendment be acted upon, except at a stated 
meeting, and by a two-thirds vote of members pres- 
ent and voting. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 




012 161 798 5 



